What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or, would you prosecute it in future, with elderstalk squirts, charged with rose water?~Abraham LincolnI wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.~Abraham Lincoln
I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.~Abraham Lincoln
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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. ~Abraham Lincoln
If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.~Abraham Lincoln
[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.~Abraham Lincoln
Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this [war], as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.~Abraham Lincoln
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In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.~Abraham Lincoln
Remembering that when not a very great man begins to be mentioned for a very great position, his head is very likely to be a little turned, I concluded I am not the fittest person to answer the questions you ask.~Abraham Lincoln
So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.~Abraham Lincoln